Get your ice cream votes in now
This blog, April, on Edy's Cookies 'N Dreamz ice cream: "Yes, you read correctly — chocolate cookies and cream. I'm hoping they're testing the flavor for a permanent run. If that dream ever happens, we can debate regular cookies and cream vs. chocolate cookies and cream. The debate can rage all night and day, and we can consume multiple cartons of ice cream to make sure we reach the right decision."
Should've looked it up!
YumSugar, January, on a vote involving Edy's American Idol-themed flavors, including Cookies 'N Dreamz: "You have until May 31 to vote, but if you cast your vote before April 29, you will be entered in a contest to win a trip to the American Idol finale. The winning flavor will end up in the regular Slow Churned Light lineup."
Vote here. I've cast my ballot for Cookies 'N Dreamz over the two other candidates I've tried, Cheesecake Diva and Mint Karaoke Cookie. The latter flavor is a mint cookies and cream, which certainly gets my attention but loses to more chocolate. The other two flavors involve orange and banana. While I've expanded my palette plenty the last few years (mmm, foie gras), I'm not about to vote for fruit ice cream.
You stand by your flavor. The Post has a story this month about one woman's quest for her favorite flavor at her supermarket. Even when the situation becomes a disaster, she stands by her flavor.
It'd be nice to say here that I was holding the line for some good reason, maybe in honor of the recently departed Irvine Robbins of Baskin-Robbins fame. But apparently I have a lot of learn about my long-time favorite flavor. Cookies and cream, one of the original 31? No way. Turns out the flavor is about the same age as I am. The Edy's man with a claim to the invention, official taster John Harrison, eats his ice cream with a golden spoon.
Harrison is a fourth-generation ice cream man. Read more here about his cookies and cream creation — the byproduct of a peach crop hailstorm — and the thin line between success and failure.
